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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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Schools of Game Magic 109
schools of magic, we need to look outside of the RPG genre into other
genres that sometimessimulate magic, like survival horror, rst-person
shooters, strategy games, and action-adventure games. Game genre shapes
game world, which dictates the aordances and limitations of spellcasting,
i.e. what is possible in magic and what is useful.
4.2 THE SCHOOLS OF MAGIC
Magic is traditionally divided up into schools of magic, which represent
various aspects of reality over which the magician has control. For exam-
ple, Dungeons & Dragons featured a classic set of eight schools: alteration,
illusion, enchantment, divinat ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870